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Subgenre Sampler
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins - Lurid and expressionistic 30s version of Stevenson's novel, and still the best, with Fredric March (who won an Oscar) as the idealist Doctor who…
Freaks (1932)
- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams - The only film in history to exploit real–life 'mutants' is actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema history. Perhaps misunderstood…
Mummy, The (1932)- Dir. Karl Freund
Feat. Boris Karloff - Boris Karloff gives a famously restrained performance, in one the great Universal Studios horrors. Story of the bandage–man's rise from the…
Old Dark House, The (1932)- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton - Seeking refuge from an encroaching storm, six travellers pick the wrong house to take shelter in, with a spooky Boris Karloff, among other terrors in…
Vampyr (1932)- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard - Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
White Zombie (1932)- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn - Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…
Dracula (1931)- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Bela Lugosi - The role that immortalised Bela Lugosi – the original and most convincing Dracula ever committed to the screen. For sheer gothic ambience, look…
Frankenstein (1931)- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff - Boris Karloff is the definitive incarnation of Mary Shelley's tragic man–monster, while the delicate balance of horror and pathos give the film…
Svengali (1931)- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher… - Adapted from the novel by George du Maurier, this has a hypnotic maniac (Barrymore) turning his evil gaze on a young model and forcing her to…
Man Who Laughs, The (1928)- Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova - One of the most spectacular (and sophisticated) of the silent epics adapts a historical story by Victor Hugo concerning the destiny of a disfigured…
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